Investment Banking (Industry Sector: Healthcare & Life Sciences)

Cognient Group is a premier investment bank offering a full array of financial advisory and valuation services enabling companies to confidently make informed, strategic decisions about their businesses. Its clients range from privately held middle market companies to large publicly traded corporations, as well as an increasing number of private equity firms, hedge funds and business development companies.

CVI Capital Holdings LLC is headquartered in Concord, Massachusetts a northwest suburb of Boston; with affiliates located in the US and one in the UK, CVI was established in 1987, as Concord Ventures Inc., later registered as a Massachusetts limited liability company. Operating within a corporate setting the firm specializes in mergers & acquisitions and related advisory consulting services for publishers and other privately-held multi-media information companies, as well as select industry sectors within Healthcare, Hotels/Hospitality and Information Technology.

De NES Partners focuses on representing single and multi-generational family and other privately-held businesses across the United States with revenue between $10-250 million, and works across the full spectrum of manufacturing, distribution, and company-to-company business services. The firm was founded in 2013.

DeSilva & Phillips was founded in 1996 by two seasoned media and banking professionals, Roland A. DeSilva and Reed Phillips III. Oaklins DeSilva+Phillips leads the TMT practice for Oaklins, the world’s largest and most successful M&A advisory organization in the mid-market. ODP specializes in sell-side and buy-side transactions, corporate finance services, valuations and restructurings for companies at the intersection of content, technology and services worldwide.

Devcas is a consulting firm that offers value added services in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and strategic planning. The firm was founded in 1991 and is based in Brossard, Canada.

Dinan & Company, LLC was founded with the singular purpose of providing the highest standards of professionalism, sophistication and execution expertise in Merger and Acquisition transactions to middle-market companies comparable to that afforded to the Fortune 500 at full-service Wall Street investment banks. It is an established, middle-market investment bank that specializes in providing merger & acquisition, valuation and fairness opinions, and merchant banking advisory services.

Dresner Partners is a middle market investment bank specializing in merger & acquisition advisory, institutional private placements of debt and equity, valuation and strategic consulting. Its clients are middle market companies operating both in the U.S. and internationally. Its experienced professionals have the foresight necessary to navigate through highly complicated transactions to maximize value for its clients.

EdgePoint Capital provides merger & acquisition advisory services for privately held companies. EdgePoint has executed hundreds of M&A transactions since their inception. The principals of the firm have an unique experience base as professionals and actual business ownership experiences.

Since 2004, Farlie Turner & Co. has been providing senior level merger and acquisition, private placement and financial advisory services to companies with enterprise values between $25 million to $300 million. Farlie Turner is a FINRA-registered broker-dealer with offices in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Nashville, Tennessee and Houston, Texas. Farlie Turner & Co provides following services: Seller Advisory Acquisition Advisory Private Placement of Debt and Equity Corporate Financial and Strategic Advisory Special Situations Group

Founded in 1981, First Analysis has a 37-year track record of serving emerging growth companies and established industry leaders within its focused areas of domain expertise. Providing senior-level attention to every client, First Analysis offers superior execution across a comprehensive range of investment banking services, including M&A advisory, public equity and debt financing, and private equity placements.